<TITLE>09. Par 75-82</TITLE>L-75   Nimrod built a tower, and Nebuchadnezzar a city, and so forth. They go on down through scientists and everything, but ever still remains that it was the blood. That, God made His decision that it would be an innocent substitute, would have to take the guilty man's place for pardon, and it remains the same thing tonight, and never has changed it.

L-76 Job lived by it. Job, the oldest book in the Bible. Though everything happened to that man, yet he stood firm because he knowed he had met Jehovah's requirement. He knowed it was right. Abraham, the same way; many of them. Israel met only... There was only one place that Israel could have fellowship: that was under the shed blood. "Men ought, everywhere, to worship in Jerusalem." Until there was a sacrifice, there was no worship. And the sacrifice was blood.

L-77   Today, today, yet as fully educated as the nation seems to be, and as highly cultured as they seem to be, and all of our scientific research to split an atom, and whatever takes place, to shoot a rocket to the moon, or send up a--a satellite, or whatever it might be. All of our scientific research, all of our denominations, all of our education, all of our schools, has only got us further from God than they was at the beginning.

L-78 What it takes is a surrendered heart to the power of Almighty God by His will, and the Holy Spirit will come as a token upon that person. "These signs shall follow them that believe." It ever remains the same. Christ said so. "Go ye into all the world, preach the Gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; he that believeth not shall be damned. And these signs shall follow them that believe." It's the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, that God has accepted the worshipper, for the Spirit and Life that was in Christ comes upon the worshipper.

L-79   Could you imagine a Jew in the old days, under the shed blood? Here he comes, down the road. It--it's the day of the atonement. He's going to make a sacrifice. He has a fine, fat bullock. That's Jehovah's requirement. Or maybe we'd say he has a--a lamb, a fine, fat lamb. It's going to be looked over, by the priest, to see if there's a blemish upon it.

L-80 And then he goes to the place of worship. He realizes he's a sinner. He's did that which was wrong. Now, he lays his hands upon this sacrifice. By laying his hands upon the sacrifice, he identifies himself with his sacrifice. And then when its throat is cut, or its life is taken; his hands laid upon him, and his life is taken, and he feels the pains as that animal is dying, and the blood squirting out upon his hands. He realizes that that animal is taking his place. And there he goes back, justified, because he's done exactly what Jehovah required him to do.

L-81   And that's the same thing it is with Christians today. It isn't signing a card, that you'll come to Sunday school so many days or so many Sundays in a year. It isn't taking a pledge that you won't drink no more for six months. It isn't that. It's laying your hands upon God's provided Sacrifice, His pardon, the head of Jesus Christ, and feeling the tears of the flesh at Calvary. And then identifying yourself with Him in baptism, that, as He died and rose again, so are you buried in His Name, to rise to newness of life, to walk as a new creature in Christ, when you do that with sincerity.

L-82   Done this, Jehovah's bidding, and so he feels justified. Now, the Jew could be justified because he had did what Jehovah bid him to do. Finally... That was right. Jehovah did that, and that was what He required. But, finally, that became a family tradition. It come atonement day and maybe the Jews had been doing what was wrong. He'd say, "Well, I believe it's atonement day. I'd better take my lamb down." See, it become a family tradition. They didn't go with it with sincerity. They just did it because the families had done it. "That's just the--the thing we should do. All the families do it, so we should do it, too."


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